The Spanish Prisoner
E717253
The Spanish Prisoner is a 1997 neo-noir thriller film written and directed by David Mamet, centered on an intricate corporate espionage con game.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Spanish Prisoner canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8153745 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Spanish Prisoner Context triple: [Gramercy Pictures, distributedFilm, The Spanish Prisoner]
-
A.
The Suspect
"The Suspect" is a 1944 film noir thriller in which Charles Laughton plays a mild-mannered Victorian-era clerk driven toward murder, noted for its atmospheric direction by Robert Siodmak.
-
B.
Behind the Candelabra
Behind the Candelabra is a 2013 biographical drama film about pianist Liberace’s secret relationship with Scott Thorson, starring Michael Douglas and Matt Damon and directed by Steven Soderbergh.
-
C.
A Prisoner
"A Prisoner" is a section of Peter Kropotkin’s autobiographical work "Memoirs of a Revolutionist," recounting his experiences of arrest, confinement, and political persecution.
-
D.
Presumed Innocent
Presumed Innocent is a 1990 legal thriller film, based on Scott Turow’s novel, about a prosecutor accused of murdering his colleague and former lover.
-
E.
The Ninth Gate
The Ninth Gate is a 1999 mystery thriller film directed by Roman Polanski, following a rare book dealer drawn into a sinister quest involving a demonic text and occult conspiracies.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Spanish Prisoner Target entity description: The Spanish Prisoner is a 1997 neo-noir thriller film written and directed by David Mamet, centered on an intricate corporate espionage con game.
-
A.
The Suspect
"The Suspect" is a 1944 film noir thriller in which Charles Laughton plays a mild-mannered Victorian-era clerk driven toward murder, noted for its atmospheric direction by Robert Siodmak.
-
B.
Behind the Candelabra
Behind the Candelabra is a 2013 biographical drama film about pianist Liberace’s secret relationship with Scott Thorson, starring Michael Douglas and Matt Damon and directed by Steven Soderbergh.
-
C.
A Prisoner
"A Prisoner" is a section of Peter Kropotkin’s autobiographical work "Memoirs of a Revolutionist," recounting his experiences of arrest, confinement, and political persecution.
-
D.
Presumed Innocent
Presumed Innocent is a 1990 legal thriller film, based on Scott Turow’s novel, about a prosecutor accused of murdering his colleague and former lover.
-
E.
The Ninth Gate
The Ninth Gate is a 1999 mystery thriller film directed by Roman Polanski, following a rare book dealer drawn into a sinister quest involving a demonic text and occult conspiracies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn | original screenplay ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Gabriel Beristain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| colorProcess | color ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | David Mamet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy | Sony Pictures Classics NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Barbara Tulliver NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
Caribbean
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ |
| genre |
mystery film
ⓘ
neo-noir ⓘ thriller ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
George Lang
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jimmy Dell NERFINISHED ⓘ Joe Ross NERFINISHED ⓘ Pat McCune NERFINISHED ⓘ Susan Ricci NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasStyle |
minimalist visual style
ⓘ
stylized dialogue ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
corporate greed
ⓘ
deception ⓘ trust ⓘ |
| isInGenreOf | film noir ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
confidence trick
ⓘ
corporate espionage ⓘ |
| motionPictureRating | PG-13 ⓘ |
| musicBy | Carter Burwell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | con game ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Sweetland Films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1997-09-08 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1997 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 110 ⓘ |
| screenedAt | Toronto International Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| screenwriter | David Mamet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | New York City ⓘ |
| starredActor |
Ben Gazzara
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Campbell Scott NERFINISHED ⓘ Felicity Huffman NERFINISHED ⓘ Rebecca Pidgeon NERFINISHED ⓘ Ricky Jay NERFINISHED ⓘ Steve Martin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| titleReference | Spanish Prisoner confidence trick ⓘ |
| writer | David Mamet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: The Spanish Prisoner Description of subject: The Spanish Prisoner is a 1997 neo-noir thriller film written and directed by David Mamet, centered on an intricate corporate espionage con game.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.